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Repost:  Quitting is Hard?  How About Dying?  The 3 Part Plan

Quitting is hard - there is no getting around that.  Can't sugar coat it as I know very few people who have skated through the process.  Good news is ....
1.  it gets better as you figure out other ways to cope without smoking........
2.  You start to feel better......  
3.  The smoke screen clears and you realize smoking gave you nothing..........
4.  Smoking is never an option in life.
Days build up and in time smoking becomes a distant memory - one that may still enter your head but is easily dismissed.  You discover that by sticking with the program and committing to the process.
Quitting may not always be easy - but it is doable.
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Quitting is Hard? How About Dying? The 3 Part Plan.
From: allsfair
Date: 2014-01-08 13:56:45 
Message:
 So what's all the complaining about? You smoked for 10, 20, 30, 40 years, and what, you thought the first 10 days was going to be easy? First 30? You're not going to get off that easy, and your inner addict (who is a liar and wants to kill you) doesn't want you escaping from the choke hold. Do you have what it takes? Of course you do!

You're not going through anything we all haven't gone though. You just have to decide whether you want to live or die - it's not too hard of a decision, at least it wasn't for me.

However, certain smoking death and costly misery in the meantime will always be refunded to you at the door as and when you leave. See ya...

I know, pretty harsh eh? But, unfortunately, those are the facts.

Here are some tips:

1. If you don't pick up and light up, even if your ass falls off, you won't smoke. You just have to go through whatever you go through physically until the drug leaves your system (3 days isn't that long - just suffer through it). If you are on NRT, you'll have to do this eventually....

2. Your inner addict is a liar and wants to kill you. The best is yet to come with this one as you move through the process and its always working, working on you. At the beginning, you are still in the stranglehold. That's why you are constantly thinking about smoking every minute. Before your addict had you in that chokehold and you were just mindlessly puffing away, killing yourself. Where was your mind? It gets better - again, you just have to suffer through it and you'll get to part 3.

3. Once you get over the physical part (chemical) and wriggling out of the chokehold you have to go about changing your mind BACK to that of a non-smoker, for whom smoking is never the answer to anything - smoking is never the result for a non-smoker because they don't' smoke (Imagine). You didn't come out of the womb with a pack of Marlboros asking the doc "got a light?" so you're just returning to your natural state (which way is being blocked by your inner addict who is a liar and wants to kill you).

Here's the thing, even with 8 hours without smoking, you'll never be closer to freedom than you are right now. Set down a program and stick to it - fight it out - flush the chemicals, wriggle out of the chokehold and set your mind free.

Just don't smoke no matter what else happens or comes up and eventually this will all be a bad memory, but a memory necessary to always preserve that quit. If you do #1 (don't smoke, even if your ass falls off) you will get to #2 and #3 and this all gets easier from there - once you're a non-smoker again, it's all just maintenance (just "not smoking," go figure).

This all takes time and effort - it's not easy and if you're not committed, I'm sorry to say, you won't make it.

Stop killing yourself - stop smoking - stay quit - change your mind - love yourself.

It's all worth it. You can and will make it.

Houston
Day 3396

Repost: Quitting is Hard? How About Dying? The 3 Part Plan

Quitting is hard - there is no getting around that. Can't sugar coat it as I know very few people who have skated through the process. Good news is....
1. it gets better as you figure out other ways to cope without smoking........
2. You start to feel better......
3. The smoke screen clears and you realize smoking gave you nothing..........
4. Smoking is never an option in life.
Days build up and in time smoking becomes a distant...#1 (don't smoke, even if your ass falls off) you will get to #2 and #3 and this all gets easier from there - once you're a non-smoker again, it's all just maintenance (just "not smoking," go figure).

This all takes time and effort - it's not easy and if you're not committed, I'm sorry to say, you won't make it.

Stop killing yourself - stop smoking - stay quit - change your mind - love yourself.

It's all worth it. You can and will make it.

Houston
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